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The Routledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Well-Being: Concepts, Theories, and Central Issues

How self-control promotes health through relationships

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vanDellen, MR; Beam, LAB; Fitzsimons, GM
January 1, 2017

Self-efficacy and self-control shape the kinds of social networks in which people find themselves pursuing their health goals. This chapter examines two interrelated processes, reviewing research on each and suggesting areas for further examination. First, it considers relationship partners’ characteristics, integrating research on goal-contagion and self-control to review ways in which partners’ demonstration of goal commitment promotes better goal outcomes for people. Second, the chapter proposes that effective self-regulatory skills involve positioning oneself in a social network more likely to promote than interfere with goal outcomes. The mechanisms by which relationship partners promote goal outcomes are as broad and varied as are the content of the personal goals people pursue. These mechanisms are reciprocal, with both relationship partners influencing each other’s goal-pursuits and eventual goal outcomes. The chapter suggests that partners’ trait self-control can function similarly, with high self-control leading to greater goal-pursuit by others.

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9781315648576

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January 1, 2017

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390 / 401
 

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vanDellen, M. R., Beam, L. A. B., & Fitzsimons, G. M. (2017). How self-control promotes health through relationships. In The Routledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Well-Being: Concepts, Theories, and Central Issues (pp. 390–401). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315648576-31
vanDellen, M. R., L. A. B. Beam, and G. M. Fitzsimons. “How self-control promotes health through relationships.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Well-Being: Concepts, Theories, and Central Issues, 390–401, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315648576-31.
vanDellen MR, Beam LAB, Fitzsimons GM. How self-control promotes health through relationships. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Well-Being: Concepts, Theories, and Central Issues. 2017. p. 390–401.
vanDellen, M. R., et al. “How self-control promotes health through relationships.” The Routledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Well-Being: Concepts, Theories, and Central Issues, 2017, pp. 390–401. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9781315648576-31.
vanDellen MR, Beam LAB, Fitzsimons GM. How self-control promotes health through relationships. The Routledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Well-Being: Concepts, Theories, and Central Issues. 2017. p. 390–401.

DOI

ISBN

9781315648576

Publication Date

January 1, 2017

Start / End Page

390 / 401